Burnham to focus on keeping child rapists in prison as release scheme talks enter final day

Andy Burnham is pushing to keep child sexual abuse perpetrators out of Britain's early prison release scheme, according to The Guardian. The review is going down to the wire, with ministers reportedly given just twenty-four hours to decide which serious offenders could be exempted, following talks with victims' representatives and support services. Every exemption is being weighed against the risk of the criminal justice system's collapse, the paper reports.

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